Excel on steroids!
November 10, 2017
Excel on steroids!
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Modules Used
- Anaplan for Sales
Overall Satisfaction with Anaplan
Anaplan is used across the whole organization, at WW level. The key problem was to remove offline spreadsheets for sales quota planning, deployment, and ensure automatic, real-time coverage analysis for the sales teams.
- Real - time - the cloud based technology allows all changes & its impact is visible in real time.
- Performance - in the case of complex business cases, the size of Anaplan is increasing drastically, and even a simple click would take more than it should.
- UI - The User interface needs to be improved: group/expand hierarchy, "Ctrl " + select option to allow multi selection, Content page clean up, easier "Drag & drop" when customizing or building exports.
- Review & enhance the type of security user roles.
- Time saving for business analysts - no need to spend time on collecting & crunching complex data, rather spending that time to provide meaningful business justifications
- MS Excel
During the selection process at the end of 2012, we were thinking of Excel as the main tool, or an in-house software built by ourselves, however, this would have taken us ages, so we checked what is available on the market. Anaplan was a small start-up at that time, but it helped us to ensure we can customize the software to our needs.